AKIPRESS.COM - The Conservatives are confident David Cameron will remain PM with early general election results suggesting the party will be close to a majority, reports BBC.

Labour has rejected an exit poll suggesting it would get 239 MPs to the Tories' 316.

The same poll suggested the Lib Dems would lose 47 seats and the SNP would win all but one seat in Scotland.

Results so far suggest the exit poll is accurate but the majority of the 650 seats have yet to declare.

If the exit poll is accurate, Mr Cameron will be able to remain in Number 10 as the head of a minority government without the need for a coalition - although he might have to rely on the support of the DUP or the Lib Dems.

Even if Labour leader Ed Miliband was able to persuade the Lib Dems to join the SNP in backing a Labour government, he would not have the necessary numbers to get his legislative programme through Parliament in a Queen's Speech.

The finishing line needed to form an absolute majority is 326, but because Sinn Fein MPs have not taken up seats and the Speaker does not normally vote, the finishing line has, in practice, been 323.